* Registration for the event will close this Wednesday the 29th at 4pm due to high demand *

Plants and microalgae are attractive low-cost and scalable production platforms for manufacturing pharmaceutical and industrial proteins. These advantages have driven interest in their use as expression systems for industrial biotechnology. The workshop will cover plant and algal expression systems, production systems/bioreactors, downstream processing together with cGMP. An overall aim is to help network the community working on algae, plants and established hosts. The overall objective of this workshop is to identify barriers and potential solutions to facilitate (fast track) the development and use of this emerging field in industrial biotechnology.

THEMES

1) production platforms-transient and stable expression systems

2) growth and bioreactors

3) harvesting, purification and regulation

Schedule

10.30-11.00 Registration/Coffee

11.00-12.55 Workshop 1: Expression Systems, Chair: Anil Day (Manchester)

11.00-11.15 Anil Day - introductory remarks

11.15-11.40 Alan Dickson (Manchester)

Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells: setting expectations

11.40-12.05 George Lomonossoff (John Innes Centre, Norwich)

Making all kinds of everything: the joy of transient expression

12.05-12.30 Pascal Drake (St George’s Hospital, London)

Advances in manufacturing antibody-based pharmaceuticals in plants

12.30-12.55 Saul Purton (University College London)

Synthesis of therapeutic proteins in the algal chloroplast

13.00-14.00 Lunch

14.00-15.45 Workshop 2: Bioreactors, Regulation & Industry Perspective, Chair: JagsPandhal (Sheffield)

14.00-14.15 Jags Pandhal - introductory remarks

14.15-14.40 Farid Khan (Protein Technologies)

Novel bioreactors and algal proteins for use as diagnostic tracers and bio-fertilisers

14.40-15.05 Martin Stocks (PBL Technologies)

The MolFarma project: a translational facility for the development of plant-made

protein technologies & applications

15.05-15.15 Andrew Spicer (Algenuity)

Algal strain optimisation using the Algem labscale photobioreactor

15.15-15.45 Coffee Break with Group Discussions, Project Proposals

15.45-17.30 Workshop 3: Harvesting & Downstream Processing, Chair Yuhong Zhou (University College London)

15.45-16.00 Yuhong Zhou-Introductory remarks

16.00-16.20 Gary Lye(University College London)

Engineering tools to speed development of microalgal bioprocesses

16.20-16.40 Short Industry presentations

16.40-17.30 Group Discussions, Project proposals

17.30-18.00 Drinks reception

* Attendance for this workshop is free but travel costs are at your own expense *

For information on the programme please contact Anil Day (anil.day@manchester.ac.uk), Jags Pandhal (j.pandhal@sheffield.ac.uk) or Yuhong Zhou (y.zhou@ucl.ac.uk)

For general questions such as location please contact Amy Figg (amy.figg@manchester.ac.uk)